Distress Oxide water resist.

I made another card. It didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to. I think I used too much water on this stamp! I ordered this stamp without looking at the measurements and I was shocked when it came in and was so little. Lesson learned ALWAYS CHECK THE DETAILS WHEN YOUR BUYING SOMETHING. I knew it was too good of a deal. oh well. Also I didn't use my "wrmk version of the misti" I can't remember what they call it. So anyway my resist didn't turn out EXACTLY like I wanted it. But it ended up working with the card, FIRST I colored my card with " Salty ocean".At the top and "Broken China" at the bottom of the piece of watercolor cardstock. I just wiped the inks across the cardstock till it filled in. Then blended the two with the mini blender tool. ( This way I didn't have to switch out the pads on the blender tool. I am waiting for some to come in) I also wiped over it with a clean DRY cloth (no fuzzies) to get the access color off.

Next I got my stamp ready to stamp the ink.

I would be using the resist method (its not hard you simply spray the stamp with a LITTLE water and stamp it. DOnt use too much water as I think I did it will smear your image) looking back I should have used my WRMK tool thats like the MISTI I probably would have had a better stamped image. I will try again and use that.

See how the image is smeared. I think that is from the water running and not using the tool. But I'm gonna try to make it work any way. (it was supposed to be flowers.) I had a scrap piece of paper that was perfect to go down the middle. MY mom is in lockdown at her assisted living facility (yes someone got covid) and is struggling. So I like to send her encouragement. So I intend to send her this card so I used these encouraging stickers I had in my stash.

I also Inked a cardstock butterfly that my friend Anne Lambert sent me in a Swap.

I added some Jewels from BO BUNNY to my butterfly right down the middle 3 tiny ones. TO help it look even more pretty.

ANd Thats the finished card. Its ready to mail. OH BY the way I dried the inks between times with my heat gun. I also dried the glue with my heat gun.To speed things along. Im enjoying these distress Oxides and IM learning more and more techniques. Im gonna try this one again with my Wrmk tool and less water. I see Jennifer McGuire do it so perfect haha she makes everything look so easy. Have fun creating!!

Playing with Distress Oxides

I saw this neat trick the other day but I have some questions about it. If Anyone can help. Here is what I saw first

INK and VELCRO HMMMMmmmmm Turn ink over ok sounds easy enough'

You put the velcro on the back. USE THE ROUGH FEELING ONES not the soft ones. Take the blender pad from the blender (mini) tool that you have already used with a distress oxide (one per color)

BE SURE To USE THE OXIDE COLOR THAT IS THE SAME COLOR as the pad color you have. ok EXAMPLE: if you just used mowed lawn with the mini blender tool with the pad, get the mowed lawn Distress oxide and turn it over and put a piece of velcro on it the rough side one not the soft fuzzy side.

This is what it should look like. TA DA!! SO, My question is: How do you get them to stack after you do this? or are you not supposed to stack them anymore after you do this?

Here are a couple tags I made. I used the water method with these tags and then decorated them. Which was fun but, I like other techniques better. this feels so sloppy but it is really fun. You can't really control where the ink rolls and streams too and goes. I guess thats the fun part. First you press your ink pad down on your mat (I use the ranger 15x19 waterproof mat) I got for Christmas. You pat them down all very close by each other, as many colors as you wanna use. I usually use 3 to 4 different distress inks. Pat them good up in the corner of you a waterproof mat (I call it a splat mat because nothing sticks to it. I have the Ranger inks one but any one will do. pat your inks a couple few times and do them close together. Then you take a small spray bottle and spray over your inks in a fine mist a couple of times till they kinda bead up ink water. (but you don't want to saturate them just a little water is all it needs) Then you take your tag or card or whatever you are working on, and do it top side down (the part you wanna see and work with side down)then wipe it all the way across the inks. swirl it, zig zag it, do it back and forth. how ever you think it is fun. It will give you a great design of color. Experiment with different color combos. I decorated them with stickers I got from Hobby lobby they were their brand paper studio really cute. I cut the photo down to fit that tag on the right I just thought it would be cute. I added the buttons from my large stash of buttons. The hearts are washi tape. I have another card to show you. Part of it is done in Oxides.

The strip across the center held by brads is colored by distress oxides in concord grape and seedless preserves. The big butterfly is done in seedless preserves and cracked pistachio the little butterflies are done in seedless preserves and concord grape. I added all the rest for decoration. The paper is by Carta Bella. Thank you for looking at my distress inks creations. There will be more as I play with the tags and cards. Ill show you what I learn. I am having a large time learning and playing with them.

Christmas eve with the Jones Family

IM loading all our pictures from Christma eve. I will explain what is going on also. We had our annual Candle light service at Dayspring Baptist Church ONLY this year, due to covid (UGH I hate talking about covid.) but, due to covid, we watched it online , which was a blessing. I took screen shots so I would have photos to scrapbook. They came out pretty good. It started off with this family (I didnt write their names down)that got baptized It was awesome to experience on Christmas eve!

Pastor Chase Alford came and brought us the message of baby Jesus and why he was sent to earth. It was so good. God's love for us! There was a lot of music Christmas carols we sang.

It was a beautiful touching service. Even watching it from home. It would be better being there in person, but Im glad we got to experience it, even online. I thank you Dayspring for doing that for those of us that couldn't get out and come to it. We really enjoyed it. I was so sad thinking we might miss this tradition in our family. We closed out with the lighting of the candles and singing "Silent NIght" so beautiful!!!

After we got through watching church online and having supper, We decided to open our one gift we always open on Christmas eve. It was a little bit different this year.

This year instead of giving her 2 pair of pjs and wrapping them separately, I just wrapped them together to be opened on Christmas eve. It was really a box thing. I didn't have many shirt boxes. So it was convenient

It's hard buying pjs for John. He really just likes long shorts (the hanes soft shorts that come down long THAT YOU CANT FIND ANYMORE) He and Bella both think its lame for us all to be matchy matchy anymore. so I just get us whatever I think we will like. John likes plaid. buffalo plaid was closest I could find.(big and tall section) they didnt really have much in his size. He doesn't like busy prints or bright colors but will wear red (he looks good in red too I must add)

So I got him the red and black buffalo plaid sleep pants and a salt life kinda red It wasnt bright red or bright black it was more distressed red and distressed black it has the two swords and the skelton head on the back of it and the right breast side of the front. He has that shirt in a different color and has worn it almost out he loves it so much. so when I saw it in a different color (I was actually looking for black) and in his size!! I jumped on it and did I mention he looks good in red?

He only got one pair of Pjs because he only wears pj pants when its cold down here which is not that often. He has about 4 pair and he hardly wears them. He wears them Christmas for pictures and for me. So I am not gonna buy him a lot of them. ME! I live in pjs. I got 2 pair like Bella. Can I just tell you I LOVE FLAMINGOS! I have a couple of t shirts. I have a couple of blankets that have flamingos on them and soap dish and a few things around a soap dispenser etc that friends have gotten me. So when I see something flamingo I grab it (Unless it is ridiculously priced) I got a Blanket that is fuzzy and soft with flamingos riding bicycles for Christmas. I have it on my bed now. WELL I found pjs that were flamingos! I had to have them! flamingo and tiger print or animal print I love especially for pjs. I got both!

HOW CUTE IS THIS!!! The pants are medium blue and have little flamingos all over them with their necks around each other and hearts above their heads. ADORABLE. IM just so happy with my flamingo pjs. I like the style especially the pants because most are too long. these have a band that comes smaller around my ankle and it has pockets!! Dont you just love anything that has pockets?? The other pair of pjs that are tiger print (they have a tank top and a long sleeve top that is kinda tight and I cant sleep in that but the pants fit fine) but the pants have pockets on them too! I mosey around the house in pj pants and t shirts most days and my house shoes. so I wear a lot of pjs. perfect gift I did good. After we got through opening the presents we decided we would go out and look at CHristmas lights. I have one picture because my husband wouldn't slow down long enough for me to get a photo of the lights so their all blurry messes of photos. but one you can see kinda better. This is it. Its in the subdivision The colonades. This family used to REALLY decorate all the way around their house with wooden and different types of decorations from DIsney to Jesus scenes it was unreal but beautiful. This year they did some but nothing like before. Let me see if yall can figure out this picture,

I know its kinda blurry but speed demon was not driving at christmas light enjoyment speed. Especially not for photo taking. so its blurry but it is the best picture I got. the others look like a blurry mess of light streams. you cant even tell what they are of. Well I hope you have enjoyed Christmas eve with us. We came back home and watched Christmas movies in our New Pajamas. Then encouraged Bella to go to sleep because Santa Claus was coming. We had all our stockings out ready (even Charleys and Lala's) It was a wonderful day and I was very tired. I had a memorable enjoyed day though. I hope to remember it always.

playing with new Distress Oxides

Hey Yall, Sorry I haven't posted. I had not created much lately. I have been under the weather alot latly. I had bronchitis and a bad sinus infection. NO! It wasn't covid thank you GOD!! I see a pulmonologist for my asthma and I catch everything but praise God I have not caught that. I got some Oxide inks (Tim Holtz Distress Oxides) for our anniversary. I got them on black friday.(great deal on them THanks Janelle) Our anniversary was on blackfriday and I told John thats what I wanted. There are several things though you need with them that I didnt have but I made do. (to do the card I wanted to do) I had been watching Jennifer McGuire videos regarding the distress Oxides and I couldnt wait to play with them. when they got here I discovered I had no idea where my embossing ink was. but it was probably dried up anyway. I had not used it in yearrrrs. Im talking like 5 or more. I got on Amazon and it was expensive on there. I got on scrapbook.com and it was more sensibly priced AND my crystal stickles and Gold stickles had come in so I ordered a couple of those and some embossing ink. I figured 2 days (the usual time) they would be here. 2 weeeks laterrrr I finally got them.. gosh thee postal service is in a mess. John took them and said ". great stocking stuffers" so I have to wait a couple days to play. II also ordered a flowery back ground stamp it doesnt even give a time it is to be delivered but shows it has been purchased and its coming. It feels like forever before I get to make this card by Jennifer McGuire the way she did it. I made it the Nancy way and made a few improvisions though. I used Dried Marigold Distress oxide ink

and abandoned coral distressed oxide ink

also a blender mini tool and 2 of the sponge tips (one tip per color)

***** money saving tip for you.. The sponge circular tips that you use on the mini blender tool instead of buying more and more for each color. What most crafters are doing is once they use one for a certain color, they velcro underneath the bottom of the ink and velcro just the blender top that has the removable pad that has the color distress ink on it underneath the distress ink, so next time they need to use it they just peel the piece off and put it on their blender tool and they can use the same colored one again instead of throwing them away and having to buy more with each use. Clear as mud? if you don't understand just ask you can message me or email me at Nancywithajones@gmail.com and I will be glad to help you. Here is the card and what I did with it. Its not JUST LIKE Jennifer McGuires. I used an embossing folder and didnt heat emboss on mine. (I didnt have the stuff for that step but its coming!!!)I cant wait to try that. Yall will try with me? I hope so. Im so new to this oxide ink this is my first thing I have made with it. BUt I did it like regular inks till after Christmas when i get all my accessories and stuff!

So I used watercolor paper (it is in a paper pad I got it fro -Hobby Lobby The size paper is 8 x 6 i think? its bigger than a card. It has about 25 in a pad and works just as well as the expensive brands of watercolor paper this one i have no idea what the name of it is has some one painting on the front of it all in a light purple) -so I cutthe paper down to about 5 x7 to run my paper through my big shot with this flower and vine print embossing folder, I ran it through twice so you could really see it on this thick paper. -next Imked up my mini ink blender tool with a new sponge thingy on the end, and i inked it up with Dried Marigold. I went over the bottom of my paper over that embossed image getting it kinda heavy on there. I inked it several times getting it covered good. -next I inked up a different sponge head with abandoned coral and started out in the middle with a heavy hand and worked outward. I then got the edge where the dried Marigold meets I sponged over it and all the edges just on the edge of it. Ill come back with more dried Marigold in the end so i wanna make sure I have all the white filled in and the Abandoned Coral represented well. I cover the middle of the page and the embossed image comes out. -I comme back to the top of the paper with Dried Marigold again starting with a heavy hand in the center covering up all the white. Then blending over the edges well especially where the abandoned Coral is. I want to blend it NOT cover it up so IM not using a heavy amount of ink. Im using a little ink in round circular motions and inking my blending tool often so I can see where I need to add more. You can always add more but you can't take it off once it is on there! so blend with a light hand. after I get my blending done. I measure the length of my card then I cut my inked paper across (so I may have some left over to use in the future for crafting) to the length of the paper (at the bottom or top) then i cut down one side leaving the other side id say about 1 3/4 inches to 2 1/2 inches however wide you like your strip to be mine was right about 3 inches. Then make a small little cut up at the bottom and cut a half diagonal ending in your first cut (to make a sideways triangle) and do the same on the bottom of the other side. so you have a banner. I inked my edges lightly with a darker brown (not the darkest brown but a medium brown done lightly) ink can be distress ink doesnt have to be an oxide. I used my crop a dile tool to cut on the largest hole punch (one side is smaller the other side is larger. 2 holes a thumb print apart so I could put my ribbon bow on there. The ribbon was left from a swap I had the lady tied my gift up with it and had a tag with it. I just loved this ribbon had to keep it.

-Next I added bling in red, onto the banner in varios places. THEN I added these metal words I have had foreverrr.. I glued it all down with Bearly art Glue (my favorite for no wrinkles and I love the tips) and you can get it from everywhere EVEN WAL MART and IT IS GREAT GLUE!!!!(put pin back in it immediately dont let it sit open it dries up fast. just a tip)

Some New layouts

Hey Ya'll! SOrry I haven't updated sooner but I have had a nasty upper respiratory infection and have been on some super strong antibiotics. They have made me so nauseas and I haven't felt like doing much. Yesterday and today I have finally felt like scrapbooking and doing some things around the house.but in addition to the sinus infection, I took a fallthis past Saturday night. I was in the tub And just before we had eaten Tsjuan (i probably spelled that wrong) John and Bella got sushi and I got hibachi. Well when I got mine somekinda liquid was all over the lid. I did fine ( Im horribly allergic to seafood and mushrooms and they had gotten both) well I went to take a bath immediately after I ate. while I was sitting in the tub my throat got kinda itchy and phlemy. I figured it was nothing but was gonna take some benadryl just to be on the safe side. so I called to John to bring me some benadryl. Nothing. I called even louder. nothing so I tried to get up.. well my water was pretty warm and I got my feet under me and my legs went numb and I fell backwards in the tub. I landed on my right side. hitting my hip first and my ankle behind me and my head (the hardest part of me) and my wrist was curled. there was just a little water in the tub thank God. I layed there for a second thinking he had heard me fall cause all the shampoo bottles fell and made a unearthly racket and my big butt falling in that tub made plenty of noise. but no.. nothing. I thought well good lord Im glad Im not unconscious. so I yelled his name again. NOTHING!! so finally I got seated upright AND I SCREAMED WITH ALL THAT WAS IN ME tears and everything JOOOHNN HELLLP MEEE! he said JUST A MINUTE! he came back ther what is wrong. I said Ive been calling you I need some benadryl and I fell. He said omgosh good lord are you ok.and he checked me out. nothing was broke he said I would have some pretty bruises there were alread red places. I was just a crying. I was overwhelmed. I had not even taken my bath yet. He fussed because hot water is a no no for MS patients I told him I run cold water before I get out but I was trying to get out to get me some benadryl. He understood annd said " Its alright now" Its over. you are going to be ok. he ran me somme luke warm water and I took my bath and washed my hair carefully. He was in there every 10 minutes checking on me. Making sure I was breathing ok and havent passed out due to the benadryl. I did fine. I ran cold water and got out of the tub fine. it was just the warm water had numbed my legs that made me fall. I know better. He gave me a lecture about warm water and not having my phone back there to get his attention (it was charging the battery was almost dead ) he hugged me and said " Im glad you are ok, Don't scare me like that" I told him I was a little afraid myself haha. so that was the excitement at out house. Here is my public service announcement. ESPECIALLY with winter coming and cooler weather. If you have multiple sclerosis be aware just how warm your bath water or shower water is. it can get too warm quickly and you loose the feeling in your legs and fall.. I know it happened to me. ok so on to some scrappiness. These arent real fancy pages. I was kinda in a lul and trying to find my MOJO. I hope you enjoy looking at these. again theyre not to fancy. The first one is the last of her Senior casual photos. I have loved scrapping these pictures. She did so good taking these pictures and I could hardly pick a favorite. Even the ones that were not my favorites turned out to be great layouts.

Sorry the photo is a little crooked. I was half awake and had a half a cup of coffee when I photographed these.

I left room on this one to put her name. I know her name but not exactly how they spell it. her name is Rosey but it could be spelled IE or EY or Y see what I mean, so when Bella gets home I will put it on there and update it. she is the cutest little thing. All the seniors get a kindergarten buddy.

Again sorry for the glare. I love this page. It shows some of her best smiles. I wanted so many 5x7s of these pictures to frame but I know I cant do them all. and guess what? Her professional senior portraits came in yesterday! OH My GOSH They are so beautiful. I really want a great big one to go over my fire place of her drape picture its so good. BUt they want a ridiculous amount of money for it and that doesnt include the frame! it is extra! I dont have that kinda money. so we got the usual 8x10 we got a small package with hopefully enough wallet for family and it was 165 dollars. I was shocked. pictures are expensive. i was wishing my awesome photographer neighbor had not left the photography business!!! Ivee learned though because of my wedding not to scrimp on pictures (our wedding pictures were horrible) the ones my sister in love took were better and that was just a few. but Im happy to have those. Well Im going to be scrapping today. Today is My mother in loves birthday. I miss her so much. she meant so much to me. i miss her.I know John and especially Bella miss her. so Im trying not to be sad because I know she is in Heaven better off than all of us. Im praying for JOhn and Liz and zach and greyson and Bella (her grand babies ) today that it is a little easier knowing she is in heaven singing with the angels and rocking the babies. I know I will see her again. I post this for Bella I made this layout quit a while before her death. whenBella was little of things I wanted Bella to take in of her Nana and always remember about her

The journaling reads:Bella and Nana ( I don't ever forget (right now) how good she smells, her snuggles,cuddles, and kisses, her wonderful generous giving nature, how beautiful she is inside and out, but most of all how much she absolutely ADORES... YOU!!!! Happy Birthday In Heaven Nana!! we love you and we miss you terribly!

A hurricane and some new layouts

I have made some new pages this week. I have another I just need to put a title on. I hope to do that today so I will post that tomorrow. I've been really tired and achey with this cold weather after Hurricane Zeta. We were fortunate though, our power flickered a lot and surged, but it never went out.(unless it went off and on while I was sleeping) but our internet and tv went out. I used Data to get online and check on my cousin Angela, she is in Louisiana and I worry about her, because she is alone. So far so good. I scrapped most of the night of the hurricane before the power started surging. I was scared my lights were gonna burst, so I came in here with John. I unplugged my cricut and the laptop and my phone (it was charged up anyway, I didnt need it plugged in) The next day I was scrapping and I went to use my cricut. I got on the laptop to cut my title and I sat there clicking on the mouse and finally rembembered oh yah! Ding Dong! Internet is out. It finally came back on but I still havent cut my title. oh well, maybe I will today.

Here is the left side of a double page layout. Ill just tell you all of the journaling on both pages at one time afterwards. It's sweet. Bless JOhns heart.

This is the right side. The Journaling says: This is what I call a “necessary” layout. It’s time with her daddy doing things that I just happened to get a picture of. And I just felt it necessary to scrap. It’s 2 pages..sorry for the glare. One day l will find a place that doesn’t do that. It says “making posters for Homecoming with Dad” The Journaling reads: 1st page: Bella was on the Homecoming committee to decorAte for Homecoming that included making the hallway poster's. She painted this one in the garage and then when it got night time so she painted it on the dining room table. She drew and colored all these little kids or shall I say “Teenagers” and she cut the heads out. The faces of her classmates out of pictures. She started gluing them onto the bodies of the “Teenager cartoons” She then suckered. I mean talked her daddy into doing the rest of them. Page 2 journaling: Yes, he fussed about it as he always does but he did a good job and it was something for his daughter. So you know he would do it. I can’t remember the exact number of them all , but I believe it was around 60. They looked so cute on the poster. She did a great job on this. Her daddy did too. Their teamwork was great. This was the senior poster for 2020 (Seniors of 2021). Homecoming went off well. They did it different this year without a dance. The school rented out the movie theater and showed “Jurassic Park” At least they got to do something for Homecoming instead of it being cancelled. I think they had a good time for this being their last Homecoming. Here is another Homecoming page:

I liked the purple it matched her dress and really made it stand out. She loved her dress. Got a fantastic deal on it. I am so proud of my girl.

Here is the last one for today. Laughter. The font is Bittermilk for the title. (I had a lot of people asking me) I fussy cut all of those flowers out of a piece of Karen Foster paper. Then put little bling on the inside of them. I love this picture of her. I have it in black and white also. Its not a big photo though I don't think. I think its just a 4x6. I am loving scrapping all these casual senior photos. so much fun. such good pictures. I have more pictures of her Senior activities to scrap! So I will be online later scrapping away. I hope you have a beautiful Sunday. It is sunshiney and beautiful outside but cold. I opted for another cup of coffee this morning just because I was cold. online church was good this morning at Dayspring. He talked about Divorce. It wasnt the fire and brimstone I was expecting but he told the truth according to the word. He spoke a little on forgiveness. I have a link to Dayspring over on the side there. You can find the sermons under the sermons link (I think its a picture) OK Im off to find a snack hope you have a great day!

Last night I got so frustrated. I couldn't find a black fine tip pen and I knew I had some. Finally I asked Bella and she produced 2 of them. I should have figured haha. Any way this morning I used one of them to darken in the back ground behind my title on the "I Hope You Dance" layout. It looks so much better I think. You can see the title now.

I hope you enjoy it. I made another layout this morning, but the glue is still wet and visible. SO I will wait till tonight to photo it. I have chat and scrap online with Bash your stash. I hope to get a couple of layouts made. I will post them tomorrow if I get any done. check back tonight or tomorrow for more. OH we have that pesky tropical storm coming. Hopefully I will have internet and power. The generator man hasn't come to look at out generator yet. Im hoping it isnt a serious problem that is going to be expensive. oh well. Maybe this storm will just be rain. see ya tomorrow, take care!

New Layouts

Hey there! I joined an online crop this weekend. I may go today for a bit. Im tired. BUT, I have some more pages I want to do. I find when I am tired though I don't do as good of a job on them and they turn out messy. so we shall see. John was up early this morning and finished smoking a pork butt for us and for some dear friends of ours and cooked some corn on the cob and baked beans and cole slaw to go with it. I love that smoker I am so glad he got it! Here is the first page I did:

This is one of Bella's casual Graduation pictures she had made on a rooftop in Downtown Mobile, right at the golden hour of sunset. I think they turned out so good. I asked on this group I am a member of and just love (scrapbooking the day away) for title suggestions and a lady on there suggested "Lovely" and it hit me right then that I wanted to do "Isn't she lovely" I got a lot of title Ideas for many other pages I will be making with those photos (I have a lot)I love those ladies so inspirational and always helpful. Here is another page I used one of their title suggestions for this "Isn't she lovely" page on this one, It fit so much better!

The challenge was to use circles and dots. half and half on your page. I think I used enough circles and dots. The title is kinda dark. I was outlining it to make it stand out and my pen died on me. I need to get me another one quick! Mary Ann put it on the Friends of Mobiles Fabulous Flamingos page also. (the group I scrap/crop with once a month) These pictures, I was not sure of at first and them by themselves I just was not crazy about. but when I put them together and with the dance title OH I just loved it. The pictures were perfect for this title. Im glad I printed them.

Bella got to experience Homecoming this year, but it was different. The school didn't have a dance like usual. The school rented out a movie theater and watched the latest Jurassic Park movie. Then this group of kids got together afterwards and went to cracker barrel. She said she had a great time and she took several sets of photos for me to scrapbook! sorry for the glare! It was getting dark and my kitchen has a flourescent light. I didn't use a lot of layers or patterned papers with this layout because there are a lot of people in the photos. *That is my rule of thumb. If the photo is busy use less busy papers. If the picture is just a single person and not busy I can use more vibrant, busy paper. Here is the last one:

These pictures are so fun! I had to cut them down though to get them all on there. This was dress up week spirit week of Homecoming. They had so much fun. THe challenge was to use twine, fibers or ribbon. I used ribbon at the bottom of my page. I have another couple of Homecoming layouts to make. We will see if I do them today. I may just rest. Im tired. I hope you have a good day and if you get the chance, do something creative!

HEY YALL! Today I am going to share a more advanced way of making embellishments. I'm going to be making it with you so bare with me. 1) first I am going to go through my scrap box and find me a scrap piece of cardstock I like. This will be the base of our embellishment. SO, we are going to be covering over this so it really doesn't matter what color you , just as long as it isn't wrinkled or bent..

This is my background cardstock I will be punching. This is the punch I will be using. Now I KNOW everyone doesn't have this punch. So you may improvise by using a rectangle, a tag, a circle or square. Just any shape you would like to. I love this punch for making embellishments though. It is just big enough. Im not saying go buy it. I don't know if they even sell it anymore. This came from my mom's stash when she went into assisted living. Thanks MOM! IT appears to be a label. It is a Stamping UP punch. SO if you are interested in getting it you may contact your Stamping up dealer for more info.

Here is the background paper (that we will be covering up!) punched out.

Next we want to pick out our paper to cover our cardstock as the back ground paper of our embellishment. Chances are we may only see a trace of this paper but we still put it down in case some of it comes through. Some suggestions: You may have a layout or card you are working on you wanna match, or you may wanna make holiday embellishment to go with Halloween, Thanksgiving or upcoming Christmas. IF you just wanna play and make some thing to practice on that's ok too. I start with looking through my scraps bin and see if there is anything in there I want to use. (unless I am matching a project) find you several scraps that will go together. (at least 3) They don't have to match exactly but the more they blend or match the better. Here is what I have chosen from my scrap box.

Now I will pick one to be my background sheet and punch the label punch out with it and adhere it to the cardstock. It should look like this (or whatever shape your using.)

Next we are going to cut 2 little flags. I hope you picked out 2 more patterned papers that match or blend. IF not do that now, then meet me back right here. First Flag:

I cut it 1 and 1\2 inches long and 1\2 inches wide. Now Im gonna cut a small cut with the tip of my scissors up the bottom then diagonally on each side to make the flag tips.

then make the diagonal cuts from each side.

Make the same diagonal cut on the opposite side.

Well mine is a little crooked but it gives it character. oh well. We are going to cut another one at 1 inch long and 1\2 inch wide out of the other patterned paper that you picked out. Do it just like the first one.

When You finish it should look something like this. Now we are going to glue (just the top edges )down to the back ground. *****READ FIRST BEFORE YOU GLUE!!!!! Your gonna glue JUST THE TOP EDGE about 1\4 the way down ONLY for the LONGEST one first!!!

YOur gonna apply the tag to the far right at the bottom ( the top part you glued will go on the bottom right) majority will be hanging off the label or whatever shape your using. see, look!

Next we are gonna do the same thing with the second flag but we are gonna over lap it some onto the first flag!

well mine is a little crooked but thats ok. Next is an optional thing. IF you have a stapler or a Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. Im gonna staple on the two tags.

I put two right on where they overlap. IF you don't have a stapler that is fine you don't have to do that. Its just to add some extra umph!to it. next I think we will add a flower. pink or purple? lets see what I have. Oh I think this lavender ( Violet) one is prettier than the pink or the darker purple. I had some smaller lavender but they just looked lost on there. This one I believe will be perfect. You can use anything you want. It doesn't have to be a flower I just thought with this pretty paper a flower would be perfect. You could use a sticker (I always back my stickers with cardstock before I put them on. Its ok if a sticker hangs off as long as you back it with cardstock. for that reason I use white scrap cardstock or a matching color. You could use a button, be sure you put thread through your button. there's nothing much that drives me more crazy than a naked button on a project and yes I admit I used to do it! You can use any type of embellishment you want to use. Im going to glue this flower down.

ok, Next I think we will add some bling! In looking for some purple bling I discovered I have an overwhelming amount of BLUE bling! I didnt think I had any so I have been buying it to go with Bella's senior pictures. I think I can stop the crusade to buy all the blue bling now! I think I have a huge portion of it. ok this bling is not as big as I wanted it to be so I think I will do 2 rows with it.

We are almost done. Stay with me now. Next we can add a piece of Washi tape or ribbon to the space above the bling (you see why i wanted to add 2 rows?) I wish it was bigger. Let me look at my washi tape first. I found a purpley Blingy washi tape I like. I think I will use it. Yall have to see this!

So what do you think? If you don't like bling you can use other stuff like stamps on cardstock, ribbon, or plain washi tape. you may interchange this out anyway you can imagine. please share your ideas and designs with me! Id love to see them. I hope this was easy enough to follow along. I tried to make it easy. It's all up to you from here. Use your creativity and imagination and make some fun embellishments. YOu can look on youtube and pinterest under DIY EMBELLISHMENTS and HANDMADE EMBELLISHMENTS and see more examples of embellishments but there are not many tutorials on how to make them.